I may not live in the Biggest city in the World, but I do live in the 2nd fastest growing city in the US. Naples. Naples is located in SW Florida, Urban sprawl from the actual city of naples which only has 24k residents has swollen to create East Naples a city of 180k, North Naples, Marco Island, Immokalee, and Golden Gate, we've grown so much due to 'urban sprawl' that we've extended all the way up into the Bonita Springs area to the north giving our Metro area around 320k residents. Were still the 2nd fastest growing in the US. Neway, downtown is where downtown has always been, but all the 1950-1970 buildings have all been torn down and new modern upscale upper-class snobby shops have been built. Downtown is pretty large but there is no trace of pre 1990's feel in downtown, it's in essence, a rich people downtown. What people designate the Financial district used to be old naples, it's got medium rise banks and such were the old drive in theaters used to be. What people call Downtown East Naples, which really doesn't exhist because East Naples truly isn't it's own city but is considered one, has the regular middle to upper-middle class stores, sprawled all over the main road through the city, but the city has 'sprawled from the coast where 10 to 40 story high rises line the sugar sand shoreline to the center of the county with the cities of Immokalee and Golden Gate, so i guess this is what urban sprawl is, out with the old and in with the new, and expansion, and that is exactly what happend here. From the years 1960 to 2003 the Naples Metro Population has grown by 866%. Pretty imppressive when we started out as 5k in 1960 and now we have 320k in 2003.... Sorry if this is to long, i jsut wanted to say this stuff, Ken Chang - Member of the Permanent High Council of New Manhattan in Sim City Central
